Preamble

The House met at half-past Two o'clock

PRAYERS

[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]

Mr. Speaker: It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate that after calling upon all hon. Members in the Chamber to take the Oath or to Affirm I shall suspend the sitting until 4 pm. I shall again be in the Chair at 5 pm, and again at 6 pm. That will be the last occasion today.
Tomorrow, after the State Opening of Parliament, I shall resume the Chair at 2.15 pm and hope to complete the swearing in of hon. Members before the business of the House begins.
Before we swear in today, it might be for the convenience of the House if we reverted to a former practice and swore in Bench by Bench, on alternate sides of the House, starting with the Front Benches.

Members Sworn

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
Peter Leonard Brooke, esquire, commonly called the honourable Peter Leonard Brooke, City of London and Westminster, South.
Bryan Charles Gould, esquire, Dagenham.
John Patrick Butcher, esquire, Coventry, South-West.
Roger Stott, esquire, CBE, Wigan.
Donald Thompson, esquire, Calder Valley.
Raymond Powell, esquire, Ogmore.
William Michael Hardy Spicer, esquire, Worcestershire, South.
Allan Ralph Rogers, esquire, Rhondda.
Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport.
Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney, North and Stoke Newington.
Michael John Mates, esquire, Hampshire, East.
Stuart Kingsley Holland, esquire, Vauxhall.
Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.
Winifred Ann, Mrs. Taylor, Dewsbury.
Edward Julian Egerton, Leigh, esquire, Gainsborough and Horncastle.
Edward Leadbitter, esquire, Hartlepool.
Right honourable Edward Richard George Heath, MBE, Old Bexley and Sidcup.
Michael Charles Stern, esquire, Bristol, North-West.
Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Bassetlaw.
Antony Speller, esquire, Devon, North.
Right honourable Robert Edward Sheldon, Ashton-under-Lyne.
Sir John Anthony Grant, Cambridgeshire, South-West.
Richard Giles, Douglas, esquire, Dunfermline, West.
Michael Howard, esquire, QC, Folkestone and Hythe.
Kenneth Eastham, esquire, Manchester, Blackley.
Dr. Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy.
Julian Michael Gordon Critchley, esquire, Aldershot.
David Gordon Clelland, esquire, Tyne Bridge.
William Connoll Walker, esquire, Tayside, North.
Donald Dixon, esquire, Jarrow.
John Ernest Townend, esquire, Bridlington.
James Callaghan, esquire, Heywood and Middleton.
Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, esquire, QC, Perth and Kinross.
Seamus Mallon, esquire, Newry and Armagh.
Martin Henry Flannery, esquire, Sheffield, Hillsborough.
William Michael John Grylls, esquire, Surrey, North-West.
Janet Evelyn Fookes, Plymouth, Drake.
Robert McTaggart, esquire, Glasgow, Central.
John Devereux Ward, esquire, CBE, Poole.
Henry Baird McLeish, esquire, Fife, Central.
Harriet Ruth Harman, Peckham.
Charles Graham Irving, esquire, Cheltenham.
Dafydd Wigley, esquire, Caernarfon.
Ieuan Wyn Jones, esquire, Ynys Môn.
Margaret Anne, Mrs. Ewing, Moray.
Richard Anthony Nelson, esquire, Chichester.
Alexander Elliott Anderson Salmond, esquire, Banff and Buchan.
Dr. Michael Clark, Rochford.
Spencer Lee Batiste, esquire, Elmet.
David Patrick Paul Alton, esquire, Liverpool, Mossley Hill.


Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens, esquire, Littleborough and Saddleworth.
James Robert Wallace, esquire, Orkney and Shetland.
Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves, esquire, Hyndburn.
Harry Ewing, esquire, Falkirk, East.
Walter Menzies Campbell, esquire, CBE, QC, Fife, North-East.
Francis Cook, esquire, Stockton, North.
Martin Maurice Brandon-Bravo, esquire, Nottingham, South.
John Thompson, esquire, Wansbeck.
Colin Ryley Shepherd, esquire, Hereford.
Charles Patrick Wall, esquire, Bradford, North.
Right honourable Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Henley.
Robert Alan Clay, esquire, Sunderland, North.
Antony Brian Baldry, esquire, Banbury.
Betty Boothroyd, West Bromwich, West.
Roger James Gale, esquire, Thanet, North.
John Whitaker Straw, esquire, Blackburn.
Frank Doran, esquire, Aberdeen, South.
Right honourable Michael Mackintosh Foot, Blaenau Gwent.
John Michael Gorst, esquire, Hendon, North.
James Marshall, esquire, Leicester, South.
John Leslie Marshall, esquire, Hendon, South.
Terence Anthony Gordon Davis, esquire, Birmingham, Hodge Hill.
Robin Corbett, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington.
Hilary Duppa Miller, esquire, Bromsgrove.
Winston Spencer Churchill, esquire, Davyhulme.
Ian Reginald Edward Gow, esquire, TD, Eastbourne.
William Rhys Powell, esquire, Corby.
Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, Holland with Boston.
Right honourable David Arthur Russell Howell, Guildford.
Henry Campbell Bellingham, esquire, Norfolk, North-West.
Iain Campbell Mills, esquire, Meriden.
Gerrard Anthony Neale, esquire, Cornwall, North.
Peter Derek Fry, esquire, Wellingborough.
Gwilym Hadyn Jones, esquire, Cardiff, North.
Right honourable Douglas Richard Hurd, CBE, Witney.
Keith William Twort Raffan, esquire, Delyn.
Peter Giles Thurnham, esquire, Bolton, North-East.
Right honourable Sir Bernard John Hayhoe, Brentford and Isleworth.
Neil Gordon Thorne, esquire, OBE, TD, Ilford, South.
Kenneth Maginnis, esquire, Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
Right honourable Timothy Hugh Francis Raison, Aylesbury.
Peter Lewis Rost, esquire, Erewash.
Right honourable William John Biffen, Shropshire, North.
Geoffrey Mark Wolfson, esquire, Sevenoaks.
Sir David Russell Johnston, Inverness, Nairn and Locaber.
Malcolm Gray Bruce, esquire, Gordon.
Janet Ray, Mrs Michie, Argyll and Bute.
George Arthur Gardiner, esquire, Reigate.
Harry Michael Cohen, esquire, Leyton.
James Alexander Lamond, esquire, Oldham, Central and Royton.

Michael Russell Brown, esquire, Brigg and Cleethorpes.
James Gordon Brown, esquire, Dunfermline. East.
Barry John Sheerman, esquire, Huddersfield.
Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.
Tam Dalyell, esquire, Linlithgow.
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, esquire, Yeovil.
Vivian Walter Hough Bendall, esquire, Ilford, North.
Matthew Owen John Taylor, esquire Truro.
Clive Stafford Soley, esquire, Hammersmith.
Tony Banks, esquire, Newham, North-West.
Right honourable Norman Beresford Tebbit, Chingford.
Thomas Michael Cox, esquire, Tooting.
Gwyneth Patricia, Mrs Dunwoody, commonly called the honourable Mrs Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, Crewe and Nantwich.

Mr. Speaker: The sitting is suspended until 4 o'clock.

4 pm

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, esquire, commonly called the honourable Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Plymouth, Sutton.
William Richard Benyon, esquire, Milton Keynes.
David Anthony Atkinson, esquire, Bournemouth, East.
Dennis Andrew Canavan, esquire, Falkirk, West.
Charles Andrew Morrison, esquire, commonly called the honourable Charles Andrew Morrison, Devizes.
Norman Anthony Godman, esquire, Greenock and Port Glasgow.
Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, esquire, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.
Hugh John Maxwell Dykes, esquire, Harrow, East.
George Barrington Porter, esquire, Wirral, South.
Kenneth Robin Warren, esquire, Hastings and Rye.
Roger Edward Sims, esquire, Chislehurst.
Robert Michael Marshall, esquire, Arundel.
Ivan John Lawrence, esquire, QC, Burton.
Right honourable David Martin Scott Steel, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale.
Neville Guthrie Trotter, esquire, Tynemouth.
Richard Andrew Ryder, esquire, OBE, Mid-Norfolk.
Roger Norman Freeman, esquire, Kettering.
Andrew Struthers Stewart, esquire, Sherwood.

Mr. Speaker: The sitting is suspended until 5 o'clock.

5 pm

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
William Edward Garrett, esquire, Wallsend.
Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, Baronet, Clwyd, North-West.
Right honourable Jack Ashley, CH, Stoke-on-Trent, South.
Phillip Anthony Charles Lawrence Oppenheim, esquire, Amber Valley.
Anthony David Steen, esquire, South Hams.
Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich, East.

Mr. Speaker: The sitting is suspended until 6 o'clock.

6 pm

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
Christopher James Hawkins, esquire, High Peak.
Densmore Ronald Dover, esquire, Chorley.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—[Mr. Ryder.]

Adjourned accordingly at sixteen minutes past Six o'clock.